Why is casual racism/sexism more accepted in video games than other forms of media (these days)?

otm this is something that has always puzzled me as well. i initially thought her first vid was a bust BC it seemed too thin but from the backlash against her it would seem she is something of a revolutionary thinker for bothering to state facts in evidence

look at all these examples of blatant sexism in popular media
*shows examples of blatant sexism but doesn't leave comments on*
truth in journalism gnash gnash gonna SWAT you i am so easily shook

maybe she should start cursing constantly and screaming in her videos, that seems to make them better

I thought the entire point behind what Sarkeesian was doing WAS that it was all super-obvious low-hanging fruit that is taken as the baseline mainstream threshold of gaming and shouldn't be.

It is! But it's been basically the same video/backlash cycle now for over a year and it's shocking that the same shibboleths still get a rise out of the trolls.

yeah you would think these kids had a better grasp of basic feminist theory

99% of the time it's just basic common sense

common sense needs to be pointed out too

society is in

difficult to get a man to understand something when his sociopathic power fantasies depend on his not understanding it iirc

https://blog.twitter.com/2016/announcing-the-twitter-trust-safety-council

anita sarkeesian has been named to some sort of "twitter safety council" and they are mad

https://twitter.com/Chriss_m/status/697137171350876161

The internet is making me go "uh" a lot more than usual this week

barely sublimated eroticism in that commentary

that guy is one of the most abjectly pitiful regular participants of the Gamergate hashtag

I mean that bio, christ

sweet dali painting tho

this is the person who runs the scholarship fund for white men that milo founded:

https://twitter.com/MargaretsBelly/status/697148365285564418

still about the same stuff then

"first made the news as the world's premier bellydancer with an ostomy"

cooooool

gone home console edition is 89 on metacritic, 4.9 user score. quick scan of the negative reviews, every. single. one. mentions sjws. there should be a meninist filter on user scores on MC.

Suprised the manbabies havent ganged up to game the scores somehow. Seems like the kind of shit they'd pull.

That's... not true, though? Over half of them just seem to have a stunted idea of what a game should be.

http://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-4/gone-home-console-edition/user-reviews

Pretentious, vapid, fluff of a walking simulator. Overpriced at any price. Spoiler: your character is a lesbian. Who cares? There are no weapons, power ups, villians, challenges, or reason to play

spoiler: your character is not a lesbian

i said a quick scan :P

but still, the first two on that page specifically say sjw, 3rd admits to being "disgruntled with the game related media industry", 4th one uses the word progressive in scare quotes.

i did like this one, suggestions on the game's own terms and everything

I just feel like there wasn't enough. Why not walk the backyard or a shed something else I mean for 19.99 its just not enough.

sounds familiar: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/03/01/how-breitbart-unleashes-hate-mobs-to-threaten-dox-and-troll-trump-critics.html

https://twitter.com/notch/status/704828353627295744

uh is that a hack or does notch just not give a fuck about his reputation now that he lives on his lonely mountain top in LA

notch nooooo

the worst part being that he created a game that is nearly completely gender bias-free, and the people I hear mention it the most are coworkers with young kids, who really love the game, regardless of ethnicity or gender

Dit ‏@dityz
@notch Aren't you the millionaire who held a ton of parties for celebs but is still sad that he doesn't have any actual friends?

Markus Persson @notch
@dityz No I'm not. I'm the billionaire who did that.

sad trombone

who could have guessed that this guy would be a gamergate supporter

http://download.gamezone.com/uploads/image/data/1099413/Notch.jpg

his twitter photo looks like an egg with a nu-metal beard glued on

nagl to suddenly turn "lol nerd", particularly when it's based on not understanding an obvious joke.

yeah but if it walks like a redditor, dresses like a redditor and quacks like a redditor...

what's the obvious joke i'm missing?

oh
http://twitter.com/notch/status/704936215259324417

http://i.imgur.com/zZ4QF9T.jpg

money can buy you a mansion with a built-in candy store but not happiness

or common sense

how brilliant: the only way to fight sissification of society is to do the most cowardly thing ever and threaten to quit

sure, he's a shut-in who loves to eat candy, but he's definitely no sissy

is that a sword in the picture or the seat belt of his mom's Prius?

Kind of suprised anyone'd be suprised that notch wasnt a gg-supporting shut in.

Well, he has the appearance of one, I suppose..

it appears he's just a regular shut-in after all, true

http://kotaku.com/microsoft-says-they-regret-holding-gdc-party-with-schoo-1765770862

Hours after hosting a “women in gaming” luncheon at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Microsoft threw a party with scantily clad dancers in school girl outfits.

yeah this is sad. just unprofessional.

On the one hand, people are def going to lose their jobs over that. On the other hand, they really should.

the comments are pretty amazing, shades of "isn't this what a nightclub is like, with dancers and stuff? i've never been to one, just seen them in movies and video games" and "most of the crowd probably couldn't afford to go to an actual club" (??)

love these experts on a social scene they perceive exists outside their realm